Public debt declines

Maintains good track-record:

The country’s total outstanding debt stock as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), declined to 81.1 percent in 2008 from 85 percent in 2007. This was revealed at the launch of the publication on Public Debt Management in Sri Lanka -2008 which was held yesterday at the Central Bank.

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Mega-development projects underway - President

Five harbours being constructed at same given period:

The Government was engaged in mega development projects in the spheres of agriculture, irrigation and other infrastructural facilities islandwide, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Govt not giving into international pressure

The Government is not prepared to give into International and domestic pressures and abandon the on going operations to free thousands of innocent civilians taken hostage by the ruthless terrorist Prabhakaran, Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said yesterday in Kandy.

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LTTE actively prevented people leaving during pause - John Holmes

There seems to be less civilians getting out during the [New Year] pause than before. So it is clear that LTTE did not allow those who wished to leave even if they wished to leave the area during this pause to do so,

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Court convicts head of Tigers in Britain

A London court convicted a man described as the head of the Tigers in Britain on two terror-linked charges yesterday, including supplying bomb-making equipment to the Sri Lankan group.

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